Murals for kids' rooms: When walls can talk

Featuring a sports motif mural, Joseph "J.J." DiMitrio's bedroom highlights his favorite hockey teams, designed by artist Donna Greenfield of Green Street Custom Designs.

Joseph "J.J." DiMitrio's Plainview bedroom features jerseys and symbols from hockey teams, including the Islanders, the Washington Capitals, the Boston Bruins and more. There’s also a Stanley Cup.

Joseph "J.J." DiMitrio in his Plainview bedroom with his mom Jonna DiMitrio, left, and artist Donna Greenfield of Green Street Custom Designs.

More of Donna Greenfield's murals at the DiMitrio home.

Donna Greenfield of Green Street Custom Designs painted murals of construction trucks and fire trucks in the bedrooms of J.J. and Brady DiMitrio of Plainview.

Gia Corse, 4, in her Valley Stream bedroom with mother Tania, the artist.

Gia Corse, 4, in her Valley Stream bedroom, which is filled with Hello Kitty murals painted by her mother Tania, who is an artist.

Melissa Digiose, a mural artist, paints an "Under the Sea"' theme on the walls of the nursery for Glenn and Julie Kleinhans of Shirley, who are expecting a child in April. Feb. 13, 2015.

Her baby is due in April, and Julie Kleinhans, a life coach, moved her office at her Shirley home to make it a nursery. Painting fish on the walls seemed a natural. “I get the sense that this baby is a very natural type of blissed-out baby at one with the environment,” she says.

Melissa Digiose, right, painted an underwater mural for Julie and Glenn Kleinhans of Shirley.

Brenda and Brian Kupchik, who are renting the Sorbanas' home, with Little Brian, 1, in one of their children's bedrooms in Long Beach.

When Rosana Casagrande-Sorbara was pregnant with twins in 2010, her mother was terminally ill. Growing up, her single-mother mom had always sacrificed so that the family could afford a cabana in Atlantic Beach. Muralist Arlene McLoughlin of Massapequa recreated their cabana.

Craig Brooks gave muralist Melissa Digiose of MD Design Studio in Coram personal items to paint in, such as the baseball glove he's used since sixth grade and his baseball cleats.

Craig Brooks, 35, a financial adviser, considered a ballfield or a giant baseball, but ultimately chose the locker room, where three jerseys hang, each with the name Ethan, James or Brooks, which is Ethan's full name.

Ethan Brooks' East Hills bedroom has a mural of a baseball locker room with Mets uniforms hanging in the lockers. It was done by Melissa Digiose of MD Design Studio, Coram.